Day: May 3, 2012

23 horses die at Gorham farm of rare botulism outbreak

The toxin is not contagious and most likely developed in bales of silage, he said. Silage is packaged in white plastic when grass is moist while hay is packaged after it has dried.

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Paints climbing the ranks in dressage

Flashback Too Robin, Miss Handy and Rhapped Four Pleasure are competing in the upper levels of dressage. FORT WORTH – Three American Paint Horses are steadily climbing the upper-level dressage ranks, proving that this traditional discipline can be mastered by an untraditional horse—and with style. Flashback Too Robin came to Meris Greges of Athens, Alabama, as an unstarted 2-year-old in 2003, testing the mettle of Greges and other barnmates with unruly behavior both under saddle and while being handled on the ground. But, Greges stuck with him on the advice of her trainer, Eugene Abello, and this

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